Tuesday, May 13, 2014. My New Twin Garden Helpers. The plan worked like a charm and has been manageable with our limited time at home. We just pulled these beautiful yellow bell peppers yesterday. Sunday, July 28, 2013.

The village of Therfield stands just six miles to the south of my house and its elevation is a whole 130 metres higher. This fine fellow thought it was about time for some Spring weather anyway. We crunched our way across the fields, threading our way through the maze of footpaths in this area and soon found ourselves in the village of Kelshall. Every so often the footpath em.

I am an artist, a gardener, a cook and a lover of all things handmade. Posted by Kim Shields under Uncategorized. For Foliage Follow-Up I present to you some of my favorite; here is Salsa Verde Sedum with a little touch of Silver Ponyfoot planted in my new pot. Artemisia, one of my most favorite, it has been frozen, eaten by deer and hacked back and it still grows into a beautiful silver mound. It gets a gold star in my book of gardening.

Living and Gardening in the South Texas Hill Country. Thursday, December 4, 2014. It was the best Thanksgiving Harry and I have spent in many years. Here is a link to my Pure Michigan blog and photos of our visit. Sunday, October 19, 2014.

Birding on a soggy day. When I looked out the window and saw all of the activity had ceased, it seemed odd, but then up in the bare crepe myrtle, I spotted a red-tailed hawk.

Tuesday, July 12, 2016. In the vastness of the Davis Mountains, there is beauty in a landscape where the brightest colors come from the blueness of the sky. At 6,000 feet, the Davis Mountains are the high dessert of Texas. I saw clusters of cholla cactus blooming here and there until we took the scenic loop drive through the mountains, then there were forests of cholla blooming for as far as the eye could .

Temperature and Rain Graphics for 2014. Saturday, March 4, 2017. 2017 Sunshine Community Garden Plant Sale. Black from Tula - Heirloom - Deep, reddish-brown Russian beefsteak. Smooth skin, fairly heat-tolerant, can be a good producer. Delicious slightly sweet fruit, 8-12oz. Nepal - Heirloom - 10-12 oz. , medium-large, globe-shaped, bright red fruits are rather soft but meaty with exc.

Playing with natives and the trials and tribulations of my shady garden. Monday, April 25, 2016. Magical moments of spring in the garden for me. Is watching the plants push themselves up through the soil, still furled, like a mohair throw wrapped tightly around the body on a cold day. This tension helps to propel their shoots upwards - I wonder if they feel themselves relax as they unwind.

Welcome to my zone 9a habitat garden near Houston, Texas. Tuesday, February 25, 2014. The blooms of the Carolina jessamine signal the changing of the seasons. Spring is breathing down its neck. As change comes to Nature and the garden, I have made the difficult decision to change some things in my life as well. For the past few years, I have published on three separate but related blogs - Backyard Birder. Where I wrote about birds, The Nature of Things. This blog is now six-and-a-h.